Friday, April 15, 2011

My Personal ABC's

A - Attached or Single: Attached, definitely attached!
B - Best Friend: My wonderful hubby, Kiley. Ya know, the one I'm attached to. :)
C - Cake or Pie: Pumpkin pie will *always be my favorite! With plenty of whipped cream on top. But I think I'd take cake over most of the other pies.
D - Dream of: The day our baby girl finally arrives!
E - Embarassing moment: Wow...I have so many. But I think the one that takes the cake is the time that I passed my (then) soon-to-be-future-in-laws on the freeway while speeding and talking on the phone! Ya...ok, here's the story: I had just finished spending a very fun weekend with Kiley and his family and this was the first weekend that he and I had *really talked about and started making plans for getting married. Of course we had talked about it before, but this weekend we actually started *planning it. So, as you can imagine, I was "all a flutter" and I couldn't think about anything else. (Now that I think about it, I really probably shouldn't have been driving...) So, after I left Kiley and his family and was driving home I decided to call my mom and tell her the news. I was so excited while I was talking to her that I didn't even notice that I was speeding and that I *passed my future-in-laws *while talking on the phone and *speeding! Next thing I know I get a call from Kiley saying "My parents just called me and said that you just passed them going pretty fast while taking on the phone..." I was SO embarrassed! I'm still surprised they let me marry their son after that. :)
F - Favorite Color: blue, but not just any blue. That one blue in the crayon box that I can never remember it's name. :)
G - Greatest vacation: Summer vacation!!!
H - Hidden talent: My lip thing...I think it might run in our family actually.
I - Indulgence(s): Currently, AVOCADO's! They are definitely the craving that has been sticking around the longest during this pregnancy!
J - January or July: July cause there's no school and no snow! What could be better?
K - Kids: One little girl on the way! Only about 7 more weeks til she gets here. I can't wait!
L - Life is incomplete without: Kiley Sanders
M - Marriage Date: September 3, 2010
N - Number of Siblings: 10 brothers and 1 sister
O - Odd thing about me: I actually just noticed this about myself the other day, but whenever I am eating any candy/snack like fruit snacks, M&M's, chocolate chips, raisins, etc I always have to end with putting 2 in my mouth. I can't finish with just one. Don't ask me why I do this...
P - Place I hope to visit: Spain or the Marshall Islands (that's where Kiley served his mission and I would love to go there with him someday)
Q - Quotes: "'Twas a sheep not a lamb
That strayed away in the parable Jesus told,
A grown-up sheep that strayed away
From the ninety and nine in the fold.
And why for the sheep should we seek
And earnestly hope and pray?
Because there is danger when sheep go wrong:
They lead the lambs astray.
Lambs will follow the sheep, you know,
Wherever the sheep may stray.
When sheep go wrong,
It won’t take long till the lambs are as wrong as they.
And so with the sheep we earnestly plead
For the sake of the lambs today,
For when the sheep are lost
What a terrible cost
The lambs will have to pay."
R - Reason to smile: My hubby made me lunch today! I just love him :)
S - Season: It's hard to decide between spring and summer, but I think I'm going to have to go with summer.
T - Tag Three Friends: Um...I don't even know *how to tag on blogs...
U - Unknown fact about me: I was raised by the World's Strictest Parents :)
V - Very favorite Store: DI and Thrift Stores! Can I add yard sales too? I know that's not a *store, but I love yard sales. :)
W - Worst habit: Letting Kiley pop my fingers and toes
X - X-tra thing about me: I am scared to death of the dentist office! I have to literally mentally prepare myself before I make a visit. One time I cried because my mom scheduled a dentist appointment for me and forgot to tell me about it until it was already time to go. I was in my Junior year of High School at that time...and I still cried...ya, not a fan of visits to the dentist.
Y - Your favorite food: Right now I am loving fruits and veggie's! Especially avocado's, plums, and apples. Yummy! But before I became pregnant I would have probably said Italian...or Mexican.
Z - Zodiac: Leo

And just for fun, here is a #32 week photo of the baby bump/hill. :)

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Happy Birthday Kiley! and other random pics...

It was Kiley's Birthday this Saturday! This was the first time I ever had a husband have a birthday...and for some reason I think I stressed out about it a little too much! But despite everything, I think the day turned out pretty
good. :)
Cadance and Alissa came over Friday night for a sleepover and got up early the next morning to help me decorate the family room.
It was lot's of fun


Look at that fantastic decorating job! I think we make a good team :)

Ok, so I have to brag a little just cause I was a kinda' proud of myself for even attempting this. I made Kiley's entire birthday cake from scratch! It was a German Chocolate cake, complete with homemade coconuty-almondy frosting stuff. :) I was pretty pleased/amazed with how it turned out...although I will admit that the eggs were a pain!

I found the recipe online and you can see it by clicking HERE! (And yes, I did leave the Rum Syrup part out :) I had lot's of fun making it.

Then later that day we had a fun birthday party with Chip, Nicole and the kids.

Kiley getting ready to cut the cake

It's probably a good thing that our smoke detectors are currently not working ;)


Opening presents

Then some friends came over and we played a few games.

All-in-all I think it was a pretty good day. Happy Birthday Sweetie!!
Love you! :)

Here are just a few before and after pics of our house...well, I guess just our family room. The rest of the house isn't nearly finished. Kiley and I stayed up till past midnight one night hanging pictures. After 6 months of living in this house I was tired of having them all on the floor.

Before...

After!



Kiley and I are especially proud of that long...thing on our wall. :) That's something I purchased in a clearance sale before we were even married. We fixed it up a bit and added Dollar Store mirrors and some of his handi-crafts from his mission. We think it turned out pretty
nice. :)

And here is a random pic of my amazing hubby holding a chicken. :)